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Despite a relatively large number of high-profile plane crashes taking place over the last months, statistically speaking, traveling by air is still the safest way of getting from point A to point B, hundreds or thousands of miles away. Large, commercial aircraft, especially, are best equipped to handle large number ... |
2 June 2009
10:04 GMT |
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A Tampa Bay, Florida-based enterprise, freshly opened for business on May 1, is offering would-be space tourists all the training they need for suborbital flights, in what the owners have termed a “space camp on steroids.” Aurora Aerospace offers customers a complete training regimen at its facility in th... |
2 June 2009
05:12 GMT |
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According to experts from the University of Warwick in the UK, and the aeronautics company Airbus, conventional plane wings may soon become a thing of the past. The researchers, whose work was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), showed that unusual wing designs, which had the abi... |
22 May 2009
08:53 GMT |
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In the field of oceanic exploration, submersibles, or submarines, as they're best known, are still the leaders of the pack. Alternatives to this method of exploring the depths are very rare, and most of them cannot even begin to compare to the large number of applications a submarine can be used for. For this ve... |
14 May 2009
08:35 GMT |
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A recent contest, set up by aeronautics company Airbus, the creator of the largest passenger airplane in the world, the A380, has requested students around the world to come up with the most innovative planes of the future. Demands have not been very strict, in that the participants could base their ideas on technolo... |
11 May 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Canada's territorial waters are, at times, safe havens for illegal fishermen, who venture in their small boats off the coasts, and make a dent in the fish population, either by harvesting more than they need, or by doing so during the reproductive season. But surveying such a huge coastline as the country's... |
5 May 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Ohio State University engineers have created what flight experts until now have considered next to impossible – a computerized guidance system for experimental aircraft, which can adapt to the changing conditions of flying faster than the speed of sound. Specifically designed for a new airplane prototype in the... |
30 April 2009
06:39 GMT |
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A new scientific study conducted on rats proved that jet lag most likely occurred when two groups of neurons in the brain were thrown out-of-sync, in that they no longer worked together. Regularly, the ventral and dorsal neuron groups in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, at the base of the brain, cooperate in assessing th... |
17 April 2009
04:32 GMT |
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Over millions of years of evolution, birds have managed to develop a highly efficient flight system, in which they use two types of feathers to fly. The longer, more stiff flight feathers help generate lift, while the second ones, coverts, are used to minimize drag while moving through the air. A team of Italian scie... |
13 April 2009
05:06 GMT |
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On Wednesday, European lawmakers set the basis for one of their most ambitious projects to date, namely for the creation of a unified air space above the Union, in a move that is aimed squarely at reducing the amount of pollution created by airplanes traveling long routes in order to go around certain areas. That is ... |
26 March 2009
11:23 GMT |
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The US Air Force has big plans for its future generation of fighter jets, which will apparently have the ability to generate high-powered microwaves (HPM). This would allow American pilots to disrupt any enemy plane's electrical systems, but would also expose their own craft to the same risks. That's why th... |
14 March 2009
06:02 GMT |
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A serious plane crash has taken place today in Holland, when a Turkish airliner collapsed to the ground while carrying 135 people. Preliminary reports hint at the fact that light fog was responsible for the crash, which nevertheless claimed the lives of 9 people, according to Dutch airport officials. An additional 50... |
25 February 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Since the beginning of the Flight Age, at the start of the 20th century, experts have been trying to construct larger and faster planes, for the sole purpose of moving more people or more cargo from one place to another. These are just four of the largest airplanes ever to take to the sky.The Hughes H-4 Hercules (reg... |
1 February 2009
21:01 GMT |
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On Thursday, seismologists announced that a surge in activity registered at Mount Redoubt in Alaska had prompted a widespread monitoring and observation effort on the part of all experts in the area. The volcano lies approximately 100 miles from the American state's most populous city, and there are concerns tha... |
30 January 2009
02:52 GMT |
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Experts from the US Forest Service and the Carnegie Institution have developed a new laser system that allows them to use a plan for monitoring changes that might have occurred in tropical rain forests. The changes refer to the influence of outside intrusive plant species, as well as to the effect the spread or reduc... |
26 January 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Airstrips from all over Antarctica seem to be currently dealing with a bit of an odd situation – many south polar skua birds, which, truth be told, are fairly large and aggressive, have taken a keen interest in runways across the freezing continent, attracted by their warmth and the fact that they are snow-free... |
20 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Over the past year, four major airplane incidents, which could have ended in tragedy, were resolved exemplary by the crew on board. Fatalities were kept to zero, and every single passenger and crew member made it out of the plane alive. In the past, when an airplane fell from 20,000 feet with a hole in it the size of... |
17 January 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Comparing the dimensions of an intercontinental airliner against those of a small bird may not yield results that will back up the conclusions that several commissions investigating plane crashes came to, namely that stray birds or flocks managed to destroy propellers and cause significant damage to the engines, forc... |
16 January 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Radial engines became widely popular during the World War II and have been mostly used to power the propellers of airplanes such as the B-25 and the B-17 bombers, or even commercial airplanes like the DC-3. Basically, a radial engine is similar to gasoline internal combustion engines, only that the pistons are dispos... |
16 May 2008
08:36 GMT |
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